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Letters / BY: Min Jung Kim, BHSc January/February 2024
... may affect the mental and emotional health of Indigenous people. For instance, one study identified that environmental ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC April 2024
... hands. Stating the obvious, I also assumed that other people’s children were in excellent hands with me. So, when ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tracy Barber, RPT, Grad Dip Phys Early online
... it is increasingly recognized as also impacting younger people. International data from the Global Burden of Disease ... osteoarthritis can be particularly problematic for younger people who may need to manage their osteoarthritis alongside ... where to find additional information if needed. How people receive this information may also be important, ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB March 2024
... gratitude.”[ 3 ] I am grateful for my health and for the people I love and those who love me. I am grateful for my ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC May 2024
... resources. Canada has 2.6 hospital beds for every 1000 people, which is behind almost every Organisation for ... BC has even less—a mere 1.95 hospital beds per 1000 people. Canada also has significantly fewer physicians ... to reaching the OECD average of 4.3 hospital beds per 1000 people by 2035, doubling our current operating room capacity, ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD April 2024
... disease) form the most common stereotypes about Indigenous people in Canada. When I entered medical school, lecture ... I was well aware of the health disparities Indigenous people faced, and I recognized that bringing awareness was ... factor, and this perpetuates the narrative of Indigenous people being sick, harboring disease, and being at fault for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel Shirvani, BSc Early online
... care services pose a serious challenge for Indigenous people who reside in remote and rural areas. In some cases, ... and large, unfamiliar hospitals would be difficult for all people, not just those from Takla. Current policies and ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC March 2024
... it simply makes us more alone. Yet, in the real world, people cheer when they hear someone has gotten into medical ... his sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, who had ALS. People would come to commiserate with Schwartz yet would ... Yet I find inspiration at work daily. I find it in the people who come together to look after a patient with ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH Early online
... still. For every road death, there are severalfold more people requiring hospitalization or other health care due to ...
Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... that second victim syndrome often goes unrecognized.[ 15 ] People may also be unwilling to discuss their experiences ...